Poems

Eat What You Kill

Sophie Cabot Black—Web only

from The Uses of the Body

Deborah Landau

Declining Public Appetite for Large Wars of Occupation

Dara Wier

Ecstasy

Jane Miller

The Boy Under the Car

John Freeman

Eighth Stage of Love

Laura Van Prooyen

Color Theory

Stephen Burt

You

Malachi Black

Reality Check

David Lehman

Poet’s Sampler

Justin Wymer
Introduced by Peter Sacks

Butterfly with Parachute

Stephen Burt

Electric Fence

Tom Healy

The Coast of Apples

Lee Upton

Hibernalphilia and Ice Idyll

Lisa Russ Spaar

when i go to bed i go to bed with the lights on

Sasha Fletcher

Poet’s Sampler

Mary Hickman
Introduced by Robyn Schiff

From the Keep

Cherry Pickman

Whistle and Snare

Broc Rossell

Before Diagnosis

Roger Reeves

The Killers

Andrew Elliott

Wake

Molly Minturn

A Parable

Anna Maria Hong—Web only

Station and Là

Andrew Zawacki

Recent History

John Ashbery

Elegy

Martha Ronk

Poem Beginning with a Line from Gammer Gurton’s Needle

John Ashbery

Poet’s Sampler

Grant Souders
introduced by Dan Beachy-Quick—Web only

No Sky

Martha Ronk

Poem for Four Years

Danniel Schoonebeek
introduced by Timothy Donnelly—Web only

2012 “Discovery” Poetry Contest Winners

Mario Chard, Rebecca Hazelton, Rosalie Moffett, and Franke Varca

Poet’s Sampler

Stefanie Wortman
introduced by Gabriel Fried

2012 Poetry Contest Winner

Sarah Crossland

Spool 25

Matthew Cooperman

The Good Historian

Graham Foust

They’re There

Frederick Seidel

Untitled

Barbara Claire Freeman

House Search

Sean Campbell

Slave (Jagger/Richards)

Graham Foust

It Is the Perpetual Today

Virginia Konchan

Dewseaville

Daniel Tiffany

To the White Woman on the Plane Who Doesn’t Understand My Discomfort When She Asks If She Can Touch My Hair

Torrie Valentine

Watch BR Poetry Editor Mary Jo Bang read from and discuss her new translation of Dante’s Inferno.

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Essays

Countee Cullen and the Racial Mountain

Major Jackson—Web only

Looting

Mary Jo Bang’s Inferno and Anne Carson’s Antigonick
Rachel Galvin

Becoming Weather

An interview with Chris MartinTed Mathys—Web only

How It’s Made

Eileen Myles’s Snowflake/different streets
Kathleen Rooney

Games About Frames

Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O’Brien
Stephen Burt

Opposing Terms

A Symposium on the Poetic Limits of Binary Thinking
Ange Mlinko, Stephen Burt, Maureen McLane, Matthew Zapruder, Marjorie Perloff, and others.—Web only

Glut Reactions

The Demographics of American Poetry
Jed Rasula and Mike Chasar—Web only

The Suffering of Others

Jorie Graham’s PLACE
David Micah Greenberg

Echoes

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women
Lindsay Turner

Gone

Mark Strand’s Almost Invisible
Jay Deshpande

Deathly Love and Lovely Death

Late-Victorian Decadent Poetry
Colin Fleming—Web only

Amen

Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul
B.K. Fischer

The Practice of Everyday Life

Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation
Christopher Schmidt—Web only

Writing About Sex

The Shocking and Thrilling D. A. Powell
Stephen Burt

Poetry on the Brink

Reinventing the Lyric
Marjorie Perloff

Natural Experiments

Peter Gizzi’s Threshold Songs
Christopher Schmidt

Poetry and the Public Sphere

Addressing “When That Becomes This”
Charles Bernstein, Susan Stewart, Marjorie Perloff, Katie Peterson, Stephen Burt, and David Micah Greenberg

The Suffering World

Poets Grieve
Katie Peterson

All Together Now

How Description Fosters Connection
Siobhan Phillips

Odd One Out

An Interview with Joan Houlihan
Sawnie Morris—Web only

Poetry Fights Back

How Pashtun poetry challenges the Taliban mindset
Shaheen Buneri

Cold Gem

William Fuller’s Hallucination
Cal Bedient

Each Passing Thought

Rae Armantrout’s Money Shot
William Montgomery

Gone Missing

Geoffrey O’Brien’s “Metropole”
David Gorin

Microreviews

July/August 2012
March/April 2012
November/December 2011
September/October 2011
July/August 2011